webOS tip: Linking to an app in the App Catalog

If you’re writing a webOS application, and want to open the App Catalog to show a particular app, Palm have provided a ‘magic’ URL you can open in a browser which causes the app catalog to show an application.

For example, I have a ‘lite’ version of Flickr Addict, called imaginatively Flickr Addict Lite, that offers the user a choice to go to the full version in the app catalog.  The code for this, given that the app ID for the app is “com.chofter.flickraddict”, is:

new Mojo.Service.Request('palm://com.palm.applicationManager', {
    method: "open",
    parameters:  {
        target: 'http://developer.palm.com/appredirect/?packageid=com.chofter.flickraddict'
    }
});

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